Aleksandr Medvedkin
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- March 8, 1900, Penza, Russian Empire [now Russia]
- Died
- February 19, 1989
- Movies
- 34
Aleksandr Ivanovich Medvedkin was a Soviet Russian film director, best known for his 1935 film Happiness. His life and art are the subject of Chris Marker's documentary films, The Train Rolls On (1971) and The Last Bolshevik (1992).
He travelled around Russia in his Kinopoezd, a film-train, in which he carried film equipment and shot movies in Kolkhozy, which he would then screen there.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2011 | The Silence of Pelešjan | Self (archive footage) |
| 1994 | The Last Bolshevik | Self (archive footage) |
| 1984 | Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man | Self |
| 1979 | Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder | Self |
| 1976 | Caution! Maoism! | Narrator |
| 1971 | The Train Rolls On | Himself |
| 1930 | Stop Thief! | Blundering Tractor Driver |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 1984 | Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man | Writer, Director |
| 1979 | Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder | Director, Writer |
| 1977 | Beijing - Anxiety of Mankind | Director |
| 1976 | Caution! Maoism! | Director, Writer |
| 1972 | The Sorrows of Young Gerkulesov | Writer |
| 1971 | Night over China | Writer, Director |
| 1969 | The Letter to a Chinese Friend | Director, Writer |
| 1962 | Law of Baseness | Director, Writer |
| 1956 | An Unquiet Spring | Director, Writer |
| 1954 | First Spring | Director |
| 1951 | Slava trudu | Director |
| 1949 | Ambulance | Screenplay |
| 1946 | Liberated Earth | Director |
| 1941 | We Await Your Victorious Return | Director, Writer |
| 1939 | Blossoming Youth | Director |
| 1938 | The New Moscow | Director, Screenplay |
| 1936 | The Miracle Worker | Director, Writer |
| 1935 | Happiness | Director, Writer |
| 1933 | The Story of Tit... or the Tale of the Large Spoon | Director |
| 1932 | Gazeta #4 | Producer |
| 1932 | How's Life, Comrade Miner? | Producer |
| 1932 | Conveyor | Producer |
| 1932 | Kinopoezd - Cinetrain | Director |
| 1931 | Duren, You're a Fool! | Director, Writer |
| 1931 | Fruits and Vegetables | Director |
| 1930 | Stop Thief! | Director |
| 1929 | Watch Your Health | Director |
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